Relay shuts down, team joins Google Chrome

DeepMind has demonstrated a proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while maintaining their biological function. The technique, called SynthID Bio, embeds identifying markers into synthetic proteins to distinguish them from naturally occurring ones. This addresses a key challenge in synthetic biology: ensuring traceability and authenticity of AI-designed biological molecules without compromising their utility.

Google is launching a satellite equipped with its Tensor Processing Units aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on October 1st as part of Project Suncatcher, an experimental initiative to test AI processor performance in space. The mission will measure how Google's TPUs handle radiation, thermal extremes, and the physical stress of spaceflight in low Earth orbit. The effort represents an early step toward Google's longer-term goal of deploying AI data centers into orbit.

Google DeepMind has launched Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, adding real-time video generation and animated avatars to its conversational AI model. The feature enables enterprises to deploy virtual agents with synchronized speech, facial expressions, and lip-syncing across 97 languages. The capability is now available in Gemini Enterprise and supports both preset and custom-branded avatars.

NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory have released predicted 3D structures for protein complexes from over 2,800 viruses through the AlphaFold Database, making the data freely available to scientists worldwide. The dataset was generated using AlphaFold2 optimized with NVIDIA's BioNeMo Inference Runtime, with about 30% of the protein interactions being entirely new to science. The collaboration aims to help researchers prepare for future pandemics by building foundational knowledge before the next outbreak occurs.